SHRD REPORT DELIVERED TO MINISTRY OF HUMAN RIGHTS

C O N F I D E N T I A L SANAA 001039 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/24/2015 TAGS: PHUM PREL KPAO OIIP ELAB KDEM KSPR DEMOCRATIC REFORM SUBJECT: SHRD REPORT DELIVERED TO MINISTRY OF HUMAN RIGHTS REF: A. SECSTATE 48134 ¶B. SANAA 903 Classified By: DCM Nabeel Khoury for Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). ¶1. (U) Poloff delivered "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2004-2005" to Nasser Arrabyee, Special Assistant to the Minister of Human Rights on April ¶24. Arabyee promised to pass the report to Minister Soswa and to report back should she have any comments. Poloff also provided an Arabic translation of the Yemen portion of the report. ¶2. (C) During the course of the meeting, Arrabyee confided that the ROYG rebuttal to the USG 2004 HRR (Ref B),"was not written with the endorsement of this ministry," confirming post suspicions that the rebuttal was instigated by instructions "from above." Instead, he expressed his ministry's appreciation for work that post was doing in "raising the awareness" of human rights abuses in Yemen and promised "full cooperation" with post with the 2005 HRR. Krajeski